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A lack of existing lab space in some locations already today.

Working to try and ensure that the purpose, value proposition and mission of companies is clearly expressed in the projects they decide to commission.Trying to do this well requires a different engagement with a client organisation.

Not one of waiting for a specification or brief, but one of asking searching questions, being curious, and, at times, challenging.There is a great deal of evidence that demonstrates that these approaches lead to projects which conceive of value well beyond normal experience..The working assumption generally held in the pharmaceutical industry is that beyond the formulation of an accepted project concept, iterative and questioning approaches offer less value and maybe pose risks in later design stages.

Therefore, the approach is to decide on a single concept to integrate the engineering structurally in an EPCM type contract and to focus purely on deliverables..This idea does not match reality and undermines the ability to both hold on to and even augment the delivered value.

As described by Henry Mintzberg about business strategy, engineering design will always include a combination of deliberate and emergent components.. Pretending a high level of fixation at best is counterproductive and at worst destructive to the project’s ability to deliver value.

This is not the dreaded “change” or “scope creep”, it is about how the proposed project scope will naturally mould and how it can be integrated with how it will be delivered both in its physical, digital, and operational forms.Once the government established the BIM requirement, there was propagation to the private sector..

Defining the Need.As a result of the Infrastructure Projects Authority and the National Infrastructure Pipeline, we now have more clarity surrounding the issue of what needs to be delivered, for who, and the timescales.

Although that’s been available for some time, the conversations around commonality are a significant shift.The Construction Innovation Hub’s work last year with the Defining the Need Report looked at the specific pipelines of infrastructure delivery (particularly social infrastructure), and analyzed what specification requirements were already in place, their maturity, and how much common ground existed..